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- One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."
- There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility…
- Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or, if allowed to suffer from neglect, a…
- The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they…
- There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak…
- No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and industrial enterprises alike;…
- To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.
- It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated,…
- It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.
- Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that…
- We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will…
- Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national…
- Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of…
- There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations;…
- No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is…
- Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a continent…
- It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness…
- Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.
- A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal;…
- If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere…
- Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order…
- Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State or the Army,…
- A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how well he cares…
- Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the…
- The chase is among the best of all national pastimes; it cultivates that vigorous manliness for the lack of which in a nation, as in…
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- Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. — Honore de Balzac
- The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. — Francis Bacon
- Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! — Honore de Balzac